Reading Round-Up: May/June 2017

Last Updated: 02 June 2024

Although the weather may seem to say otherwise (farewell, brief summer of 2017) summer is now in full swing, meaning it's time for another Reading Round-Up!

If you missed the last edition, you can catch up here.

Birthday book haul 📚

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What is Reading Round-Up?

Reading round-up is a simple way for me to keep track of everything book-related and a fun way to show my readers what I've been reading over the last few months!

Out are the books I've read in May and June.

In are the books I've acquired during that time.

And wishlist are the books I've found out about and want to buy but haven't managed to get my hands on yet!

In

• Searching for Steven (Whitsborough Bay #1) by Jessica Redland
• Born Bad by Marnie Riches
• Perfect Remains (D.I. Callanach #1) by Helen Fields 
• The Secret Wife by Gill Paul
• The Big Little Wedding in Carlton Square by Lilly Bartlett 
• Cesspool by Phil M. Williams 
• The Turning Point by Freya North 
• The Secret of Orchard Cottage by Alex Brown 
• The Amulet Thief (The Fitheach Trilogy #1) by Luanne Bennett 
• Summer at Conwenna Cove by Darcie Boleyn 
• Surrender by Sonya Hartnett 
• I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
• Obsession by Amanda Robson 
• The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
• The Girls by Lisa Jewell 
• I Do Not Sleep by Judy Finnigan 
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
• The Stranger in My Home by Adele Parks
• Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child
• Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 
• The Salvation Project (Soterion Mission #3) by Stewart Ross 
• Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner
• Truth or Dare by Non Pratt
• Beck by Mal Peet
• Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
• Black and Green (Ghost Bird #11) by C.L. Stone 
• Felicity at the Cross Hotel by Helena Fairfax 
• We Have Lost the Coffee by Paul Mathews 
• Forgotten Reflections by Young-Im Lee
• Revenge of the Malakim by Paul Harrison 

Out

• The Fall Of Five (Lorien Legacies #4) by Pittacus Lore 
• The Revenge of Seven (Lorien Legacies #5) by Pittacus Lore 
• The Fate of Ten (Lorien Legacies #6) by Pittacus Lore
• United As One (Lorien Legacies #7) by Pittacus Lore
• Revenge of the Zeds (The Soterion Mission #2) by Stewart Ross

Wishlist

• The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• The Finding of Martha Lost by Caroline Wallace
• The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza 
• The Gift by Louise Jensen 
• The Teacher by Katerina Diamond 
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 
• We Are All Made of Stars by Rowan Coleman 
• Island by Jane Rogers 
• The Shadow Year by Hannah Richell 
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild 
• Before You Go by Clare Swatman 
• Exquisite by Sarah Stovell 
• The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie 
• Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys 

What have you been reading recently? Have you read a book I should know about? Let me know in the comments below!